这不是很酷，因为它看起来是在状态中。

It wasn't cool because it was like being in limbo.

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这些诉求之一与在动荡中创造一种平和的状态相关，借用 T。 S。 Eliot 的话来说，就是“旋转世界中的静止点”。

One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a "still point of the turning world," to borrow a phrase from T. S. Eliot.

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在我们万物互联的世界中，无聊也许是一种很难定义的状态，却也是一种丰富的状态。

In our always-connected world, boredom may be a hard-to-define state, but it is a fertile one.

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And you don't have to be too careful or fine about gradations of punishment in the state of nature.

而且在自然状态中，你不必,对实施惩罚的程度太过小心。

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Now one of the moments in which this tension between virginity and chastity seems to be most pronounced is in the encounter between Comus and the Lady that we looked at in the last class.

在紧张状态中有一个时刻,涉及童贞和贞节，似乎最为明显,那就是我们上节课看到的,科玛斯和那位女士的相遇。

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So many of them would have gone up to Jerusalem and a real tension is going to develop between the Jerusalem priests and this class of Levites who are newcomers; and we'll see some of that tension played out in some other texts.

他们中的许多人将去耶路撒冷，一次真正的紧张状态,将在耶路撒冷的牧师和这些新来的利未人,中逐渐发展起来;我们将会在其它的经文中,看到一些这种紧张状态。

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